Director, Market Access Marketing – Psych/Neuro Franchise

Job Description

Director, Market Access Marketing (Pipeline) | Neurocrine Biosciences

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Neurocrine Biosciences, located in San Diego, CA. Neurocrine is a leading biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing, and commercializing life-changing treatments for neurological, psychiatric, endocrine, and immunological disorders. This role is crucial for optimizing coverage and patient access across the company’s portfolio by leading market access strategies and ensuring effective communication with payers and providers.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, San Diego, CA
• Pay: $201700–$275000 yearly
• Team: Leads the Market Access Psych/Neuro Franchise Marketing team.
• Mission: Optimize coverage and patient access across Neurocrine’s portfolio by developing and executing payer and access strategies.
• Tech Stack: Veeva Vault Promo materials

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategy Leadership: Lead the development of U.S. Market Access strategies, identifying key issues, opportunities, and developing product positioning and messaging for payers and providers.
• Performance Accountability: Accountable for the performance and results of Market Access Marketing within the assigned franchise, proactively managing opportunities, risks, and resources.
• Educational Development: Develop strategies, programs, and collateral to educate physicians and physician staff on matters related to reimbursement and market access.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Co-lead cross-functional teams to design, develop, and execute comprehensive Pharmacy network strategies.
• Commercial Planning: Lead Market Access contributions to annual and longer-range commercial planning, establishing strategic priorities and budget recommendations.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, health policy, scientific, or a related field; Director-level leadership for Market Access Marketing.
• Experience: 12+ years of relevant experience in payer marketing, access, managed markets, market development, and/or account management in a US pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical organization, with extensive managerial experience.
• Skills: Demonstrated strategic thinking, problem-solving, and creativity in product positioning and messaging; in-depth knowledge of drug development, regulatory review, and commercialization processes for specialty products, including limited distribution models; ability to effectively represent the commercial perspective during Medical/Regulatory/Legal review of promotional materials using Veeva Vault Promo.
• Bonus: Experience in CNS, rare disease, and pharmacy benefit products; experience in product launches and with products in a limited distribution model.